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Politics : THE WHITE HOUSE
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To: Sedohr Nod who wrote (8567)9/10/2007 4:23:23 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof   of 25737
 
"Saddam's iraqi army was geared more for regime retention than national defense...."

Little doubt about that!

(The fact that his family's clan was a small minority among the minority that the Sunnis themselves are in 'Iraq' no doubt played a role in that, too.)

"Disbanding of the army was not a great flaw in the war plans....Just my humble opinion..."

I agree. Not a flaw in the 'war plans' AT ALL.

(The 'war' went even better then planned. Was a complete successes from most any vantage point.)

Believe, rather, was a BIG flaw in the OCCUPATION 'plans'.

(And, I put that last 'plans' in quotes because it wasn't much of a "plan". The admin. --- and their small clique of mostly civilian 'neo-con' thinkers --- *TOSSED OUT* the EXTREMELY DETAILED PLAN for the occupation that had been rigorously prepared by our best military planners from the Pentagon, Middle Eastern experts from State and C.I.A., etc., just a month or two prior to the invasion.)

The decision to toss the Army out on the streets with no take-home pay (thus starting the clock on the insurgency) was the 'neo-cons' bright idea --- it WAS NOT in the original and much more detailed and thought out US Government plan for the occupation... which details took some three years or so to be drawn up.
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